Star Time - James Brown (Soul)

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Album Notes: STAR TIME includes a 64-page booklet with three essays - brief appreciations by writer Nelson George and Brown's longtime tour manager Alan Leeds and a longer history by 2 of the box's producers - a complete discography and an introduction penned by the Godfather of Soul himself.
Personnel includes: James Brown (vocals, piano, organ); Bobby Byrd (vocals. organ); Phelps "Catfish" Collins (guitar); Maceo Parker (tenor & baritone saxophones); St. Clair Pickney, Pee Wee Ellis, Clifford "Ace King" MacMillian (tenor saxophone); Al "Brisco" Clark (baritone saxophone); Lewis Hamlin (trumpet); William "Bootsy" Collins, Bernard Odum (bass); John "Jabo" Starks, Nat Kendrick (drums).
Producers include: Ralph Bass, Syd Nathan, James Brown, Hal Neely, Afrika Bambaataa.
Compilation producer: Harry Weinger.
There are few box sets that can match the greatness of James Brown's STARTIME. Backed by such brilliant musicians as Melvin and Maceo Parker, Bootsy Collins and Bobby Byrd, Brown created some of the most intense, soulful music ever recorded. Collecting seventy two tracks that let you hear why Brown is hailed as "the hardest working man in show business," STARTIME is packed with the best R&B and funk that money can buy.
From early-'60s R&B hits like "Please, Please, Please" and late-'60s funk essentials like "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" and "Sex Machine" to the massively influential '70s funk grooves "Funky Drummer" and "The Payback," STARTIME gives you all the James Brown basics. This set is a monument to the life and music of one of the most colorful and inspired performers in popular music. STARTIME also comes with a 64-page booklet that features rare and wonderful photos and essays by Nelson George and several other noted critics. Essential.

Album Reviews: Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.52) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (5/30/91) - 5 Stars - Classic - "...a staggering collection....goes well beyond the usual hits 'n' rarities approach of boxed retrospectives to get at the essence of Brown's development from gospel-style shouter...to Soul Brother No. 1...and from God-father of Soul...to grandfather of rap..."
Rolling Stone (4/18/91) - "...The success of STAR TIME should pave the way for further examination of the James Brown catalog....the box is an ideal way to reintroduce Brown's massive body of work to a public more familiar with his legend than with the records themselves..."
Q (6/91) - 5 Stars - Indespensable - "...Brown is one of the half- dozen most important, most influential individual oeuvres of the entire rock-and-roll era: the equal of Dylan, The Beatles and Motown....This isn't just the history of one artist; it is literally the history of the groove, the beat that can't be beat..."
Entertainment Weekly (6/12) - "...soul history as a headlong rush of killer hooks, brain-melting horn blasts, and a scream that fuses passion and violence in one initiable call of the wild..." - Rating: A

Titles on disc 1

1.: Please Please Please

2.: Why Do You Do Me

3.: Try Me

4.: Tell Me What I Did Wrong

5.: Bewildered

6.: Good Good Lovin'

7.: I'll Go Crazy

8.: I Know It's True

9.: Do The Mashed Potatoes (part 1)

10.: Think

11.: Baby You're Right

12.: Lost Someone

13.: Night Train

14.: I've Got Money

15.: I Don't Mind (live)

16.: Prisoner Of Love

17.: Devil's Den

18.: Out Of The Blue

19.: Out Of Sight

20.: Grits

21.: Maybe The Last Time

22.: It's A Man's World

23.: I Got You

24.: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (parts 1-3)

Titles on disc 2

1.: Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (part 1)

2.: I Got You (I Feel Good)

3.: Ain't That A Groove

4.: It's A Man's Man's Man's World

5.: Money Won't Change You

6.: Don't Be A Dropout

7.: Bring It Up (Hipster's Avenue)

8.: Let Yourself Go

9.: Cold Sweat

10.: Get It Together

11.: I Can't Stand Myself (When You Touch Me) (part 1)

12.: I Got The Feelin'

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Titles on disc 2

13.: Licking Stick Licking Stick

14.: Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud

15.: There Was A Time (live)

16.: Give It Up Or Turn It Loose

17.: Don't Want Nobody To Give Me Nothing (parts 1 and 2)

Titles on disc 3

1.: Mother Popcorn

2.: Funky Drummer

3.: Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine

4.: Super Bad (parts 1-2)

5.: Talking Loud And Saying Nothing

6.: Get Up Get Into It And Get Involved

7.: Soul Power (parts 1-2)

8.: Brother Rapp/Ain't It Funky Now (live)

9.: Hot Pants (part 1)

10.: I'm A Greedy Man (part 1)

11.: Make It Funky (part 1)

12.: It's A New Day (live)

13.: I Got Ants In My Pants (part 1)

14.: King Heroin

Titles on disc 4

1.: There It Is (part 1)

2.: Public Enemy No 1 (part 1)

3.: Get On The Good Foot

4.: I Got A Bag Of My Own

5.: Doing It To Death

6.: Payback

7.: Papa Don't Take No Mess (part 1)

8.: Stoned To The Bone (part 1)

9.: My Thang

10.: Funky President (People It's Bad)

11.: Hot (I Need To Be Loved Loved Loved)

12.: Get Up Offa That Thing

13.: Body Heat (part 1)

14.: It's Too Funky In Here

15.: Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses) (part 1)

16.: Unity (part 1) - Brown, James & Afrika Bambaataa